Vocabulary from Classical Roots
Lesson 14 Exercises
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EXERCISE 14A
Circle the letter of the best SYNONYM
Circle the letter of the best ANTONYM
1. to be a successful entrepreneur
a. magician
b. undertaker
c. translator
d. business person
e. animal trainer
6. to explicate a paragraph
a. criticize
b. translate
c. misinterpret
d. explain
e. read
2. to ply with food
a. supply eagerly
b. stuff
c. play
d.be stingy
e. trick
7. to reprehend an offender
a. praise
b. rebuke
c. catch
d. hate
e. release
3. to supplicate the queen
a. support
b. praise
c. reproach
d. beseech
e. attack
8. a rivals duplicity
a. double-dealing
b. treachery
c. singularity
d. ambidextrousness
e. fair play
4. behavior that implies obedience
a. suggests
b. demonstrates
c. pretends
d. disdains
e. infers
5. a play comprising three acts
a. dramatizing
b. compressing
c. containing
d. presenting
e. ruining
EXERCISE 14B - Circle the letter of the sentence in which the word in bold-faced type is used incorrectly.
1.
a. Because the enthusiastic audience called for a reprisal, the chorus sang another medley of ballads.
b. The rapacious warriors expected reprisal following their attack.
c. “Turning the other cheek” is the opposite response to reprisal for a victim of the wrong.
d. Losing the title by one point, the team swore reprisals next season.
2.
a. Just because Lillian Hellman implied familiarity with Communist theory, can you infer that she was a
Communist?
b. Downcast eyes and blushing imply shyness.
c. Since 1952, hospitals have used Virginia Apgar’s system of testing newborn babies to imply their
degree of health.
d. The design of Shaker furniture implies masterly artisans.
3.
a. The players admitted complicity in losing the game on purpose.
b. The spy acknowledged complicity in leaking classified information.
c. Tom Sawyer draws Huck Finn into complicity to free Jim, who has already been declared a free slave.
d. Although poor, the family lived in a cheerful, wholesome complicity.
4.
a. The anguished parents supplicated the judge not to send their child to prison.
b. The workers almost supplicated when the ladder collapsed under them.
c. The committee supplicated corporations for donations.
d. The young peasant girl, Joan of Arc, supplicated the Dauphin of France to allow her to lead the French
army to victory.
5.
a. The police were able to apprehend the culprits because they left fingerprints.
b. The champion instantly apprehended the chess move required to put the challenger in check.
c. Gazing up at the precipice, the climber apprehended the danger.
d. Losing their balance in the tree, the children apprehended to the nearest branches.
6.
a. Stephen Potter’s book on “one-upmanship” describes ploys for getting the better of one’s
acquaintances.
b. Expert anglers have ploys to outwit the wariest fish.
c. A mechanical ploy fascinated the children at the toy store.
d. Political actions sometimes begin as a ploy but grow into duplicity, as the Watergate affair in 1972
illustrated.
7.
a. Jane Austen wrote her novels surreptitiously, covering the manuscripts at every knock on the door.
b. One reaches a destination faster on a surreptitious underground train than on a bus contending with
traffic.
c. In 1605, Guy Fawkes surreptitiously stored gunpowder under the Houses of Parliament, plotting to
blow them up.
d. General Washington’s surreptitious crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776, allowed
a successful assault on the British troops.
8.
a. People in every culture try to emancipate themselves from hampering stereotypes.
b. Women achieved emancipation in dress with the shorter, looser clothing of the 1920’s.
c. Richard Wright learned that books could emancipate him from restrictions posed by Southern culture.
d. Gloves are a useful way to emancipate unsightly hands.
EXERCISE 14C - Fill in each blank with the most appropriate word from Lesson 14. Use a word or any of
its forms only once.
1. Playing with blocks helps children develop _________________________ coordination.
2. Because she is _________________________ she can do her homework even with her dominant arm in a cast.
3. After she spilled her coffee, the embarrassed guest tried to _______________________ attention from herself.
4. Georgia O’Keeffe’s glowing paintings of adobe houses, rock formations, and mesas ____________________
her love of the Southwest.
5. The new employee _________________________ whenever his boss is present.
6. Some organizations stress the idea that an individual’s behavior is a(n) _____________________ of the
group’s standards.
7. The jackal is a(n) _____________________ hunter, not only tracking live animals, but also feeding on carrion.
Review for Lessons 13 & 14 - Circle the letter of the best answer to the following analogies and questions
about roots and definitions.
1. dermatology: skin : :
4. Which word is defined incorrectly?
a. carrion : heart
a. décolletage - “low neckline”
b. ossification : back
b. accord - “agreement”
c. séance : chair
c. carnage - “massacre”
d. gastronomy : stomach
d. endorse - “to back down”
e. incarnation : nerve
e. enervate - “to deprive of strength”
2. assiduity : laziness : :
a. séance : carnage
b. concordance : dissidence
c. corpus : consanguinity
d. cordiality : décolletage
e. concordance : ossification
3. concordance : words and phrases : :
a. dossier : accolades
b. corpulence : gastronomes
c. corpus : written works
d. carnage : carrion
e. consanguinity: cordiality
5. Which English word is not a derivative of the
Latin or Greek word that follows it?
a. epidermis - derma
b. affront - frons
c. supersede - os
d. séance - sedere
e. corporal - corpus
6. Which pair of words is the only set derived from
words related to internal organs of the body?
a. sanguine - incarnate
b. cordial - gastric
c. sedentary - epidermis
d. dorsal - ossified
e. enervated - corporeal
Substitute the appropriate word from Lessons 13 or 14 for each word or phrase in parentheses in the
following paragraphs. No word is used more than once.
1. In his Theory of the Leisure Class, sociologist Thorstein Veblen describes how the eighteenth-century working
partnership of husbands and wives was _________________________ (replaced) in the nineteenth century by the
non-working, middle-class wife whose leisure was _________________________ (bestowed) by her husband’s
economic success. For some middle-class women, this circumscribed lifestyle led to the development of pastimes
that were _________________________ (characterized by much sitting), such as embroidery, drawing, music,
and reading. Confinement to a strictly domestic life _________________________ (weakened) and frustrated
other women, who longed for education and a meaningful role in political and professional life. However, most
working-class women sought to imitate the manners and values of women who did not have to work.
2. American ethnologist Jane Goodall has received many _________________________ (honors) for her
_________________________ (unceasingly persistent) efforts to improve the lives of both human beings and
animals in Tanzania, where she has lived and worked for many years. In 1991 she founded the program Roots and
Shoots to encourage conservation among schoolchildren in village schools throughout Tanzania. She has received
enthusiastic _________________________ (support) for her powerful opposition to the ____________________
(massive slaughter) of wild animals.